README file for 
Abby K. Wood and Christian R. Grose 
�Campaign Finance Transparency Affects Legislators� Election Outcomes and Behavior�


SOFTWARE
All analysis in R conducted using R version 4.0.0 (2020-04-24) -- "Arbor Day"
Copyright (C) 2020 The R Foundation for Statistical Computing
Platform: x86_64-apple-darwin17.0 (64-bit)

All analysis in STATA conducted using StataIC 16.1 


CODE
wood_grose_replication_code.R provides all code needed to replicate figures and tables in main text and SI except for Tables 7 and 8 and Appendix L.  Code for those analyses is in .do files with names that correspond to the analysis (Table 7 AJPS Wood Grose House Incumbent Vote Share 2006 to 2018 regression commands & codebook.do; Table 8 AJPS Wood Grose News Coverage of House Members regression commands and codebook.do; Appendix L.do)


DATA FILES AND CODEBOOKS

Data for audits analysis:
1.  wood_grose_main_data.RData is the combined data file for analysis through Table 6, as well as robustness checks in the SI related to the audits and their impact.
* Codebook: Codebook for main data file - Wood and Grose.pdf


Data for extensions to today:
1.  Table 7 AJPS Wood Grose House Incumbent Vote Share 2006 to 2018.dta (data built on Gary Jacobson's work)
* Codebook is in the .do file entitled Table 7 AJPS Wood Grose House Incumbent Vote Share 2006 to 2018 regression commands & codebook.do


2.  CCEScumulative_2006_2018_with_scandals.dta
*cces codebooks (note that there are two):
**CCES codebook for cumulative_2006_2018 data.pdf
**Codebook to accompany CCES data for Appendix L.docx


3.  Lexis Local News Advance 2018 Data House media CF scandal.dta
*Codebook is in the .do file entitled Table 8 AJPS Wood Grose News Coverage of House Members regression commands and codebook.do



4.  Table 8 Wood Grose News Coverage 2010 & 2014 Data.dta
*Codebook is in the .do file entitled Table 8 AJPS Wood Grose News Coverage of House Members regression commands and codebook.do



Proprietary data not included in this replication set:
Wesleyan Media Project advertising data (discussed in the section entitled �Extensions: Campaign Finance Violations Are Associated with Outcomes in the 2000s�), though the R
file called wood_grose_replication_code_final.R contains the code we used and a brief
codebook describing the variables we used for the t-tests.



